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  2. List of World Series champions - Wikipedia

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    The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]

  3. World Series - Wikipedia

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    By 1949, World Series games could be seen east of the Mississippi River. [49] The games were open to all channels with a network affiliation. [50] By 1950, World Series games could be seen in most of the country, [51] [52] [53] but not all. 1951 marked the first time that the World Series was televised coast [54] to coast.

  4. 1987 World Series - Wikipedia

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    The 1987 World Series was the first World Series games played in an indoor stadium (the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome) [1] and, to date, the last World Series game to start earlier than prime time in the eastern United States (Game 6 started at 4:00 p.m. ET/3:00 p.m. CT), and it was the first World Series in which all games were won by the home ...

  5. Baseball broadcasting firsts - Wikipedia

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    In 1947, The World Series was televised for the first time ever. [7] [8] The games were shown in on NBC over their WNBT channel (now WNBC). The broadcast was sponsored by Gillette and Ford. With only about 100,000 television sets in the country at the time, the 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million viewers.

  6. 1948 World Series - Wikipedia

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    This was the only World Series played between 1947 and 1958 not to feature a New York team, and the last not won by a New York team until the 1957 Series (which the Braves, having relocated to Milwaukee, won over the Yankees). The two teams would meet again in the 1995 Series, with the Braves—by then relocated to Atlanta—winning. This was ...

  7. 1978 World Series - Wikipedia

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    The 75th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers. In a rematch of the previous year's World Series, the Yankees won, four games to two, to repeat as champions and to win their 22nd World Series. As of ...

  8. World Series 2024: Nestor Cortes Jr., Yankees bullpen fail to ...

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    Roughly seven minutes after Cortes had entered in hopes of finalizing a Yankees Game 1 victory, Freeman hit the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history. Life comes at you fast in October.

  9. World Series television ratings - Wikipedia

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    The highest-rated individual game in World Series history was Game 6 in 1980, when the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Kansas City Royals; the game had a 40.0 rating. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The only other games with a rating of 39 or higher were Game 7 in 1975 , when the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Red Sox , with a 39.6 rating, [ 5 ] and Game 4 ...